• Marquette – Youth Sailing Lessons

    Youth Sailing Lessons Offered this Summer   The Marquette Junior Yacht Club will again offer youth sailing lessons this summer to the public. The program will provide the basic fundamentals of sailing for beginner ages 8-17 and expanded skill training for returning intermediate sailors. Instruction takes place both on and off the water by certified sailing instructors at the Marquette Yacht Club location, E Main Street, Marquette. Students will convene daily at the MJYC boathouse space generously donated by the Marquette Fish Producers.   The 2025 schedule is as follows: July 7 – July 11, July 14 – July 18,

  • Eagle Mine Free Public Tours

    Eagle Mine to offer Free Public Tours of Facilities CHAMPION, Mich., April 22, 2025—A series of public tours of Eagle Mine facilities will be offered during the summer. Tour locations will alternate between the Eagle Mine in Big Bay and the Humboldt Mill in Champion on Thursdays from July to September. Tours of the Eagle Mine will be offered on the following dates from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: June 19, July 10, July 24, August 7, August 21, September 4, and September 18. The Eagle Mine Tour is primarily a driving surface tour of the mine site with a

  • Marquette County Board of Health Monthly Meeting

    Marquette County Courthouse 234 W. Baraga Avenue, Marquette, Michigan

    The regular monthly meeting of the Marquette County Board of Health will be held on Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 6:00 pm.  The meeting will take place in Room 231 of the Henry A. Skewis Annex, Marquette County Courthouse, Marquette..

  • Cloverland Concert on the Steps 

    Cloverland Concert on the Steps Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.  Peter White Public Library Front Street Steps.  Family, Adults, Seniors, Teens.  Gather by the steps with chairs and picnics for an evening of folk and bluegrass tunes by popular local band Cloverland, featuring musicians Kerry Yost, Stephanie Whiton, Sarah Mittlefehldt, and John Gillette.  A toe- and heart-tapping concert that is not to be missed!  No admission charge.  Weather Contingency:  Community Room.  For more information, contact Marty at 226-4322, machatz@pwpl.info, or visit pwpl.info.

  • Houghton – Soul Shop: Faith-based Suicide Prevention Training

    Trinity Episcopal Church 205 E. Montezuma Avenue, Houghton, MI, United States

    Soul Shop: Faith-based suicide prevention training set for June 26 The following press release was posted on our website on June 2, 2025.   Copper Shores Outreach & Education is hosting Soul Shop with the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan on Thursday, June 26 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church in Houghton (245 East Montezuma Avenue). Soul Shop is a suicide prevention training program designed for leaders and members of all faith-based communities. Training is free to attend and open to members of all faith-based communities; breakfast and lunch will be provided.   “This training is a great pastoral tool for those in the church

  • Ann Berman Louis Graveraet Kaufman:  The Fabulous Michigan Gatsby Who Conquered Wall Street, Took Over General Motors, and Built the World’s Tallest Building Reading 

    Ann Berman Louis Graveraet Kaufman:  The Fabulous Michigan Gatsby Who Conquered Wall Street, Took Over General Motors, and Built the World’s Tallest Building Reading Thursday, June 26, 2025.  6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.  Peter White Public Library Shiras Room.  Adults, Seniors, Family Friendly.  Michigan historian Ann Berman reads from her biography about the life and legacy of local titan of American banking, Louis Graveraet, a Gatsbyesque figure born in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula who married into great wealth and then amassed far more of his own. No admission charge.  For more information, contact Marty at 226-4322, machatz@pwpl.info, or visit pwpl.info.

  • “Love Letters” at NMU

      Northern Michigan University Theatre & Dance will present “Love Letters” by A.R. Gurney, a past nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play features two characters—Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III—whose 50-year correspondence chronicles their evolving relationship and shared confidences. It has been described as “a tender, tragi-comic and nuanced examination of the shared nostalgia, missed opportunities and deep closeness of two lifelong, complicated friends.” Showtimes are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 26 through Saturday, June 28, in Forest Roberts Theatre. The play stars Amy Dolan-Malaney and Robert Ouellette, both seasoned actors who performed “Love Letters”

  • Soo Locks to host Engineers Day 2025

      SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in conjunction with the City of Sault Ste. Marie, the Sault Ste. Marie Convention & Visitors Bureau, the United States Coast Guard, the Lake Superior State University Center for Freshwater Research and Education, Hospice of the Eastern Upper Peninsula, and Superior Health Systems are hosting open house events for the 2025 Soo Locks Engineers Day on June 27. Visitors are welcome into the Soo Locks facility and across the MacArthur Lock from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Friday, June 27. Engineers Day honors the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’

  • “Love Letters” at NMU

      Northern Michigan University Theatre & Dance will present “Love Letters” by A.R. Gurney, a past nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play features two characters—Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III—whose 50-year correspondence chronicles their evolving relationship and shared confidences. It has been described as “a tender, tragi-comic and nuanced examination of the shared nostalgia, missed opportunities and deep closeness of two lifelong, complicated friends.” Showtimes are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 26 through Saturday, June 28, in Forest Roberts Theatre. The play stars Amy Dolan-Malaney and Robert Ouellette, both seasoned actors who performed “Love Letters”